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Education changes
fate
Today
Knowledge changes fate, and schools have always been
the key place to impart knowledge. Research proves that
whether a country is rich or poor depends on the education
066 level of the people - for example, in Senegal, West Africa, 067
where people over the age of 25 only attended school for
2.4 years on average, the country’s per capita income is
USD1,000; Turkey's average education period is 6.6 years,
its per capita income is USD10,900; while Americans
receive an average of 13.4 years of education, its per
capita income is USD53,000.
A traditional teaching of the Chinese says that: nothing is
more important than learning.
However, Jack Ma of Alibaba said that if we do not reform